856 Norwegian teenagers
took part in a bullying study in 1995. The study was looking
at links between bullying and health. It considered both
physical complaints (such as headaches, dizziness and stomach
ache) and psychological complaints (such as feeling low,
nervousness and irritability). It found that bullied children
were far more likely than those who had never been bullied,
to suffer from a wide range of symptoms. Surprisingly, the
one symptom which the bullied teenagers did not suffer from
more often than the non bullied ones, was sleeplessness.
The most common psychological symptom amongst the bullied
children was feeling low. It was also found that the number
of symptoms increased with the amount of bullying. .........................................